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Article: San Leandro shuttle service funding hits snag Chamber of Commerce pulls support for assessment district
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 2, 2003
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SAN LEANDRO -- The San Leandro Chamber of Commerce has decided to
pull its support from the formation of an assessment district that
would tax certain businesses to help pay for a free shuttle service.
The chamber's board of directors voted to oppose the West San
Leandro Shuttle Business Improvement District last Thursday after
members said they did not want it. The chamber had been a proponent
of the district before then.
The San Leandro Transportation Management Organization is
proposing the establishment of the district to assist in the partial
funding of LINKS -- a free shuttle service that takes employees to
work and back from the San Leandro BART Station during weekday
morning and ...